ZELENSKY: ‘WE DID NOT ACHIEVE THE DESIRED RESULTS’: In a wide-ranging interview with the Associated Press, conducted Thursday in the war-ravaged northeastern Ukrainian town of Kharkiv, President Volodymyr Zelensky offered a sobering assessment of the shortcomings of Ukraine’s summer counteroffensive against Russian forces, while remaining resolute about the need to keep fighting.

“We wanted faster results. From that perspective, unfortunately, we did not achieve the desired results. And this is a fact,” Zelensky said. “We are losing people, I’m not satisfied. We didn’t get all the weapons we wanted; I can’t be satisfied, but I also can’t complain too much.”

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